Dr Nicholas Rodger FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2003
- Subjects
- History
- Sections
- Early Modern History to 1850
Summary
Nicholas Rodger (born 1949) is a naval historian. He was educated at Ampleforth College and University College, Oxford, after which he spent seventeen years (1974-91) as an Assistant Keeper in the Public Record Office. He was then Anderson Senior Research Fellow of the National Maritime Museum, 1992-99, before moving to Exeter University as Lecturer (briefly), then Professor of Naval History, 1999-2008. In 2008 he became a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
Current post
Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
Past appointments
All Souls College University of Oxford Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
2008 -
University of Exeter Professor of Naval History
2000 -
University of Exeter Professor of Naval History, University of Exeter
2000 -
National Maritime Museum Research Fellow
1992 - 1999
Other Institutions Assistant Keeper of Public Records
1979 - 1991
Public Record Office Assistant Keeper
1974 - 1991
Publications
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The history of political thought and political economy from the 17th century to the present, with focus on small states and free states, empire and commerce; the historiography of intellectual history
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History of earth sciences, especially the reconstruction of the earth's pre-human history, 1750-1850; the history of visual imagery in the natural sciences; epistemic issues in field- and museum-based sciences
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Renaissance humanism and European literature 1450-1700; the history of religion in relation to the history of the book; literary theory and the history of philosophy
